Body Horror Movies of the 1980s
Body horror turns flesh, transformation and decay into the source of dread. Video stores, practical effects and franchise slashers made the 1980s horror's boom years. Standouts from the 1980s include The Thing, The Fly and Possession.
The Thing (1982)
Rated 8.1 on TMDB
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
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Rated 7.5 on TMDB
When brilliant, eccentric scientist Seth Brundle makes a huge technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself.
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Rated 7.3 on TMDB
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved.
See where it’s streamingHellraiser (1987)
Rated 6.9 on TMDB
A hedonistic man finds a mysterious puzzle box that summons a group of gruesome beings known as the Cenobites.
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Rated 6.9 on TMDB
In Arborville, California, three high school students try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches.
See where it’s streamingThe Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Rated 7.2 on TMDB
Two employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a toxic gas from a misplaced top-secret U.S.
See where it’s streamingVampire Hunter D (1985)
Rated 6.6 on TMDB
In a far-future time ruled by the supernatural, a young girl requests the help of a vampire hunter to kill the vampire who has bitten her and thus prevent her from becoming a vampire herself.
See where it’s streamingThe Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 (1986)
Rated 5.7 on TMDB
A radio host is victimised by the notorious cannibal family while a former Texas Marshal hunts them.
See where it’s streamingTetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
Rated 7.0 on TMDB
A "metal fetishist", driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he's made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out into the night and is accidentally run down by a Japanese businessman and his…
See where it’s streamingSleepaway Camp (1983)
Rated 6.3 on TMDB
Years after a terrible boating accident, Angela is sent to Camp Arawak where a series of bizarre and violent "accidents" begin to claim the lives of various campers.
See where it’s streamingGuinea Pig: Mermaid in the Manhole (1988)
Rated 5.4 on TMDB
An artist dealing with the grief of his wife leaving him finds solace in painting the squalor of the sewer. He discovers a trapped mermaid, whom he brings home to heal.
See where it’s streamingCreepshow (1982)
Rated 6.9 on TMDB
Five grisly tales from a 1950s-style comic, including a murdered father rising from beyond, a bizarre meteor, a vengeful husband, a mysterious crate's occupant, and a plague of cockroaches.
See where it’s streamingAlligator (1980)
Rated 6.0 on TMDB
A baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives by eating discarded lab animals that have been injected with growth hormones.
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Rated 6.7 on TMDB
A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called 'scanning' to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non-Scanners.
See where it’s streamingGuinea Pig Part 2: Flower of Flesh and Blood (1985)
Rated 4.6 on TMDB
A woman kidnapped in the dead of night awakens in a grisly dungeon, where her deranged assailant prepares her body for a morbid ritual.
See where it’s streamingSilent Night, Deadly Night (1984)
Rated 5.9 on TMDB
After a man dressed as Santa Claus brutally murders Billy Chapman's parents, little Billy then endures the cruelty of a sadistic nun at his orphanage.
See where it’s streamingThe Fly II (1989)
Rated 5.7 on TMDB
Martin Brundle, born of the human/fly, is adopted by his father's place of employment (Bartok Inc.) while the employees simply wait for his mutant chromosomes to come out of their dormant state.
See where it’s streamingGuinea Pig: Devil's Experiment (1985)
Rated 4.8 on TMDB
Masked thugs torture an innocent woman in increasingly brutal ways.
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Rated 6.9 on TMDB
New Yorker Liza Merril inherits an old hotel in Louisiana and invests her savings to reopen the place, unaware that the hotel houses the body of a dead painter murdered decades earlier, and that the…
See where it’s streamingThe House by the Cemetery (1981)
Rated 6.3 on TMDB
After a doctor kills his mistress and himself while researching the mysterious previous owner of his Boston home, his colleague, Dr.
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